Vaughan Williams: The Collector's Edition [Box Set]

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Disc 1
Symphony No. 1 "A Sea Symphony"
I. A Song for All Seas, All Ships (Moderato maestoso)
Behold the sea itself (chorus)
Today a rude brief recitative (baritone & chorus)
Flaunt out, O sea, your separate flags of nations (soprano & chorus)
Token of all brave captains (chorus)
A pennant universal (baritone, soprano & chorus)
II. On the Beach at Night, Alone (Largo sostenuto)
On the beach, at night, alone (baritone & semi-chorus)
A vast similitude interlocks all (baritone & chorus)
III. Scherzo: The Waves (Allegro brillante)
IV. The Explorers (Grave e molto adagio - Andante cono moto)
O vast Rondure, swimming in Space (chorus)
Down from the gardens of Asia descending (chorus)
O we can wait no longer (baritone & soprano)
O thou transcendent (soprano, baritone & chorus)
Greater than stars or suns (chorus, soprano & baritone)
Sail forth (chorus, soprano & baritone)
O my brave Soul (soprano, baritone & chorus)
Performer: Joan Rodgers (Soprano), William Shimell (Baritone)
Conductor: Vernon Handley
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
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Disc 2
Symphony No. 2 "A London Symphony"
I. Lento - Allegro risoluto (molto pesante)
II. Lento
III. Scherzo (Nocturne): Allegro vivace
IV. Andante con moto - Maestoso alla marcia (quasi lento) - Allegro - Maestoso alla marcia (alla I) - Epilogue (Andante sostenuto)
Symphony No. 8 in D minor
I. Fantasia (Variazioni senza tema)
II. Scherzo alla marcia (per stromenti a fiato) (Allegro alla marcia)
III. Cavatina (per stromenti ad arco) (Lento espressivo)
IV. Toccata (Moderato maestoso)
Conductor: Vernon Handley
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
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Disc 3
Symphony No. 3 "A Pastoral Symphony"
I. Molto moderato
II. Lento moderato
III. Moderato pesante
IV. Lento
Symphony No. 4 in F minor
I. Allegro
II. Andante moderato
III. Scherzo (Allegro molto) -
IV. Finale (Allegro molto) con epilogo fugato (Con anima)
Conductor: Vernon Handley
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
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Disc 4
Oboe Concerto in A minor
I. Rondo pastorale (Allegro moderato)
II. Minuet and Musette (Allegro moderato)
III. Finale: Scherzo (Presto - Lento - Presto)
Symphony No. 5 in D
I. Preludio (Moderato - Allegro - Tempo I)
II. Scherzo (Presto misterioso)
III. Romanza (Lento)
IV. Passacaglia (Moderato - Allegro - Tempo primo - Tempo del Preludio)
Performer: Jonathan Small (Oboe)
Conductor: Vernon Handley
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
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Disc 5
Symphony No. 6 in E minor
I. Allegro -
II. Moderato -
III. Scherzo (Allegro vivace) -
IV. Epilogue (Moderato)
Symphony No. 9 in E minor
I. Moderato maestoso
II. Andante sostenuto
III. Scherzo (Allegro pesante)
IV. Andante tranquillo
Conductor: Vernon Handley
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
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Disc 6
Serenade to Music (choral version)
Partita for double string orchestra
I. Prelude (Andante tranquillo) -
II. Scherzo ostinato (Presto)
III. Intermezzo (Homage to Henry Hall) (Andante con moto)
IV. Fantasia (Allegro)
Symphony No. 7 "Sinfonia antartica"
I. Prelude (Andante maestoso)
II. Scherzo (Moderato)
III. Landscape (Lento)
IV. Intermezzo (Andante sostenuto)
V. Epilogue (Alla marcia moderato, non troppo allegro)
Performer: Ian Tracey (Organ), Alison Hargan (Soprano)
Conductor: Vernon Handley
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
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Disc 7
The Wasps - Aristophanic Suite*
I. Overture
II. Entr'acte
III. March Past of the Kitchen Utensils
IV. Entr'acte
V. Ballet and Final Tableau
Prelude and Fugue in C minor#
Prelude
Fugue
Piano Concerto in C
I. Toccata (Allegro moderato) -
II. Romanza (Lento) -
III. Fuga cromatica (Allegro) con finale alla tedesca
Performer: #David Bell (Organ), Piers Lane (Piano)
Conductor: Vernon Handley
Orchestra/Ensemble: *London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
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Disc 8
Concerto in C for two pianos and orchestra
I. Toccata (Allegro moderato) -
II. Romanza (Lento) -
III. Fuga cromatica (Allegro) con finale alla tedesca
Job - A Masque for Dancing
Scene I:
Introduction -
Saraband of the Sons of God
Scene II: Satan's Dance of Triumph
Scene III: Minuet of the Sons of Job and Their Wives
Scene IV: Job's Dream -
Scene V: Dance of the Three Messengers
Scene VI: Dance of Job's Comforters -
Scene VII:
Elihu's Dance of Youth and Beauty -
Pavane of the Sons of the Morning
Scene VIII:
Galliard of the Sons of the Morning -
Altar Dance -
Scene IX: Epilogue
Performer: Vitya Vronsky (Piano), Victor Babin (Piano)
Conductor: Sir Adrian Boult
Orchestra/Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra
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Disc 9
Serenade to Music ("How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!") for 16 soloists and orchestra
English Folk Songs - Suite (orch. Gordon Jacob)
I. March (Seventeen Come Sunday)
II. Intermezzo (My Bonny Boy)
III. March (Folk Songs from Somerset)
Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 in E minor*
Fantasia on 'Greensleeves' for harp, flute & strings (arranged by R. Greaves; from the opera "Sir John In Love")
In the Fen Country, symphonic impression for orchestra *
The Lark Ascending, romance for violin & orchestra *
Performer: *Hugh Bean (Violin)
Conductor: Sir Adrian Boult
Orchestra/Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra, *New Philharmonia Orchestra
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Disc 10
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Performer: Alan Turner (Cello), Gerald Jarvis (Violin), Robert Growcott (Violin),
Cedric Morgan (Viola)
Conductor: Constantin Silvestri
Orchestra/Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
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Sea Songs - March (military band)
English Folk Songs - Suite
I. March (Seventeen Come Sunday)
II. Intermezzo (My Bonny Boy)
III. March (Folk Songs from Somerset)
Conductor: Eric Banks
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Air Force Central Band
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Dawn Patrol (from the film Coastal Command)
Conductor: Sir Charles Groves
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Concerto grosso for String Orchestra
I. Intrada (Largo)
II. Burlesca ostinata (Allegro moderato)
III. Sarabande (Lento)
IV. Scherzo (Allegro: tempo di valse)
V. March (A la marcia) and Reprise
Conductor: Sir Charles Groves
Orchestra/Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra
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Romance for Harmonica, Strings and Piano in D flat major
Performer: Larry Adler (Harmonica), Eric Gritton (Piano)
Conductor: Sir Malcolm Sargent
Orchestra/Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Tuba Concerto in F minor
I. Prelude (Allegro moderato)
II. Romanza (Andante sostenuto)
III. Finale: Rondo alla tedesca (Allegro)
Performer: Philip Catelinet (Tuba)
Conductor: Sir John Barbirolli
Orchestra/Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
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Disc 11
Serenade to Music (orchestral version)*
The Poisoned Kiss - Overture
Old King Cole - A Ballet for Orchestra*
1.I.Allegro moderato
2.Pipe Dance
3.Bowl Dance
4.Morris Jig: 'Go and 'list for a sailor'
5.Folk Song: 'A Bold Young Farmer'
6.Folk Tune: 'The Jolly Thresherman'
7.Solo Jig
Five Mystical Songs
1.Easter
2.I got me flowers
3.Love bade me welcome
4.The Call
5.Antiphon
Prelude on an Old Carol Tune
The Running Set
Prelude: 49th Parallel
Sea Songs - March (sym. orch.)
Performer: *Bradley Creswick (Violin)
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Orchestra/Ensemble: Northern Sinfonia of England
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Disc 12
Variations for Brass Band (arr. orchestra)
Theme: Andante maestoso
Variation I: Poco tranquillo
Variation II: Tranquillo cantabile
Variation III: Allegro
Variation IV: Canon (Allegro)
Variation V: Moderato sostenuto
Variation VI: Tempo di valse
Variation VII: Arabesque (Andante sostenuto)
Variation VIII: Alla polacca
Variation IX: Adagio
Variation X: Fugato (Allegro moderato e risoluto)
Variation XI: Chorale
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Two Hymn-Tune Preludes
1. Eventide (melody by W. H. Monk)
2. Dominus regit me (melody by J. B. Dykes)
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Concerto for violin and strings in D minor "Concerto accademico"*
I. Allegro pesante
II. Adagio
III. Presto
Performer: *Bradley Creswick (Violin)
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Orchestra/Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
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Three Preludes Founded on Welsh Hymn Tunes (orch. Arnold Foster)
2. Rhosymedre (melody by J. D. Edwards, 1805-1885)
3. Hyfrydol (melody by R. H. Prichard, 1811-1887)
Performer: Robert Joyce (Organ)
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String Quartet No. 1 in G minor
I. Allegro moderato
II. Minuet and Trio (Tempo di minuetto)
III. Romance (Andante sostenuto)
IV. Finale: Rondo capriccioso (Allegro molto - Pochettino pi� mosso)
Performer: Peter Manning (Violin), Keith Pascoe (Violin), Andrew Shulman (Cello), Peter Lale (Viola)
Orchestra/Ensemble: Britten String Quartet
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Disc 13
Violin Sonata in A minor
I. Fantasia (Allegro giusto)
II. Scherzo (Allegro furioso, ma non troppo)
III. Tema con variazioni
Tema (Andante)
Variation 1 -
Variation 2 -
Variation 3 -
Variation 4 -
Variation 5 -
Variation 6 (Allegro - Tempo del preludio, ma tranquillo)
Performer: Hugh Bean (Violin), David Parkhouse (Piano)
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Phantasy Quintet
I. Prelude (Lento ma non troppo)
II. Scherzo (Prestissimo)
III. Alla sarabanda (Allegro moderato)
IV. Burlesca (Allegro moderato)
Performer: Hugh Bean (Violin), Eileen Croxford (Cello), Ian Jewel (Viola), Frances Mason (Violin), Christopher Wellington (Viola)
Orchestra/Ensemble: Music Group of London
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Six Studies in English Folk-Song
Adagio (Lovely on the Water)
Andante sostenuto (Spurn Point)
Larghetto (Van Diemen's Land)
Lento (She borrowed some of her mother's gold)
Andante tranquillo (The Lady and the Dragoon)
Allegro vivace (As I walked over London Bridge)
Performer: David Parkhouse (Piano), Eileen Croxford (Cello)
Orchestra/Ensemble: Music Group of London
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String Quartet No. 2 in A minor (For Jean on her Birthday)
I. Prelude (Allegro appassionato)
II. Romance (Largo)
III. Scherzo (Allegro)
IV. Epilogue: Greetings from Joan to Jean (Andante sostenuto)
Performer: Christopher Wellington (Viola), Frances Mason (Violin), Eileen Croxford (Cello), Hugh Bean (Violin)
Orchestra/Ensemble: Music Group of London
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Disc 14
Toward the Unknown Region - A song for chorus and orchestra
Dona nobis pacem *
I. 'Agnus Dei' (Lento) -
II. 'Beat! beat! drums!' (Allegro moderato) -
III. Reconciliation (Andantino) -
IV. Dirge for Two Veterans (Moderato alla marcia) -
V. 'The Angel of Death has been abroad' (L'istesso tempo) -
VI. 'O man greatly beloved'
Fantasia (quasi variazione) on the Old 104th#
Performer: *Sheila Armstrong (Soprano), *John Carol Case (Baritone), #Peter Katin (Piano)
Conductor: Sir Adrian Boult
Orchestra/Ensemble: London Philharmonic Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra
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Magnificat
Performer: Helen Watts (Mezzo Soprano), Christopher Hyde-Smith (Flute)
Conductor: Meredith Davies
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra Nova of London, Ambrosian Singers Women's Voices
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Disc 15
An Oxford Elegy
(Lento)
Go, for they call you, Shepherd
Here will I sit and wait
Screen'd is this nook
That sweet city
Come, let me read
Or in my boat I lie
And once, in winter
But what - I dream!
No, no, thou hast not felt
Runs it not here
Needs must I, with heavy heart
Soon will the high Midsummer pomps
He hearkens not!
Never more
Yes, thou art gone!
Despair I will not
Why faintest thou?
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Whitsunday Hymn (No. 3 of Three Choral Hymns)*
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Flos campi #
1. Sicut Lilium inter spinas (Lento) -
2. Jam enim hiems transiit (Andante con moto) -
3. Quaesivi quem diligit anima mea (Lento - Allegro moderato) -
4. En lectulum Salomonis (Moderato alla marcia) -
5. Revertere, revertere Sulamitis! (Andante quasi lento) -
6. Pone me ut signaculum (Moderato tranquillo)
Performer: John Westbrook (Spoken Vocals), *Robin Doveton (Tenor), #Cecil Aronowitz (Viola)
Conductor: Sir David Willcocks
Orchestra/Ensemble: Jacques Orchestra
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Sancta Civitas
I was in the spirit (Lento)
And I saw Heaven opened (Allegro)
And I saw an angel standing in the sun (Meno mosso)
Babylon the great is fallen (Lento)
Rejoice over her O Heavens (Allegro moderato)
And I saw a new heaven (Adagio)
Therefore are they before the throne of God (Poco meno largo)
And I saw a pure river
Holy, Holy, Holy (Andante sostenuto)
Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory (Poco animato)
Performer: Ian Partridge (Tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (Baritone)
Conductor: Sir David Willcocks
Orchestra/Ensemble: Bach Choir, Cambridge King's College Choir, London Symphony Orchestra
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Disc 16
Five Tudor Portraits
1. Ballad: The Tunning of Elinor Rumming
2. Intermezzo: My Pretty Bess
3. Burlesca: Epitaph on John Jayberd of Diss
4. Romanza: Jane Scroop (Her Lament for Philip Sparrow)
5. Scherzo: Jolly Rutterkin
Performer: Elisabeth Bainbridge (Mezzo Soprano), John Carol Case (Baritone)
Conductor: Sir David Willcocks
Orchestra/Ensemble: New Philharmonia Orchestra, Bach Choir
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Benedicite
Performer: Heather Harper (Soprano)
Conductor: Sir David Willcocks
Orchestra/Ensemble: Bach Choir, London Symphony Orchestra
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Five Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'
Conductor: Sir David Willcocks
Orchestra/Ensemble: Jacques Orchestra
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Disc 17
Fantasia on Christmas Carols:
1.This is the truth sent from above -
2.Come all you worthy gentlemen -
3.On Christmas night all Christians sing -
4.God bless the ruler of this house
Performer: Stephen Roberts (Baritone)
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Orchestra/Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus
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Hodie - A Christmas Cantata
I. Prologue: Nowell! Nowell!
II. Narration: Now the birth of Jesus Christ -
III. Song: It was the winter wild
IV. Narration: And it came to pass in those days
V. Choral: The blessed son of God
VI. Narration: And there were in the same country
VII. Song: The Oxen (Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock)
VIII. Narration: And the shepherds returned
IX. Pastoral: The shepherds sing
X. Narration: But Mary kept all these things
XI. Lullaby: Sweet was the song the Virgin sang
XII. Hymn: Bright portals of the sky
XIII. Narration: Now when Jesus was born
XIV. The March of the Three Kings: From kingdoms of wisdom -
XV. Choral: No sad thought his soul affright
XVI. Epilogue: In the beginning was the Word
Performer: Dame Janet Baker (Mezzo Soprano), Sir Philip Ledger (Organ), Richard Lewis (Tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (Baritone)
Conductor: Sir David Willcocks
Orchestra/Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra, Bach Choir, Westminster Abbey Choristers
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Disc 18
Yorkshire Wassail Song (We've been awhile a-wandering)
Conductor: Sir David Willcocks
Orchestra/Ensemble: Bach Choir, Jacques Orchestra
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In Windsor Forest
I. The Conspiracy (Shakespeare)
II. Drinking Song (John Still or William Stevenson)
III. Falstaff and the Fairies (Shakespeare, Ravenscroft and Lyly)
IV. Wedding Chorus (Ben Johnson)
V. Epilogue (attrib. Campion)
Conductor: Norman Del Mar
Orchestra/Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus
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Songs of Travel
1. The Vagabond
2. Let beauty awake
3. The Roadside Fire
4. Youth and Love
5. In Dreams
6. The infinite shining heavens
7. Whither must I wander
8. Bright is the ring of words
9. I have trod the upward and the downward slope
Performer: David Willison (Piano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Tenor)
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On Wenlock Edge
I. On Wenlock Edge
II. From far, from eve and morning
III. Is my team ploughing?
IV. Oh, when I was in love with you
V. Bredon Hill
VI. Clun
Performer: Ian Partridge
Orchestra: Music Group of London
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Disc 19
O, clap your hands
Conductor: Sir David Willcocks
Orchestra/Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra
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Mass in G minor
Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus - Osanna I - Benedictus - Osanna II
Agnus Dei
Performer: Robin Doveton (Tenor), John Eaton (Treble), Nigel Perrin (Countertenor), David Van Asch (Bass)
Conductor: Sir David Willcocks
Orchestra/Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra, Cambridge King's College Choir
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English Hymnal: All people that on earth do dwell (Old Hundredth)
Performer: Benjamin Bayl (Organ)
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Orchestra/Ensemble: The Wallace Collection, Cambridge King's College Choir
Notes: Arranger: Roy Douglas.
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O taste and see
Performer: James Lancelot (Organ), Ivan Sharpe (Treble)
Conductor: Martin Neary
Orchestra/Ensemble: Winchester Cathedral Choir
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Te Deum in G
Performer: Timothy Farrell (Organ)
Conductor: Russell Burgess
Orchestra/Ensemble: Wandsworth School Boys' Choir
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English Hymnal: no 4, For all the saints (Sine nomine)
Performer: John Scott Whiteley (Organ)
Conductor: Philip Moore
Orchestra/Ensemble: York Minster Choir
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Three Preludes Founded on Welsh Hymn Tunes (2008 Digital Remaster)
1. Bryn Calfaria (melody by W. Owen, 1814-1893) (2008 Digital Remaster)
2. Rhosymedre (melody by J. D. Edwards, 1805-1885) (2008 Digital Remaster)
3. Hyfrydol (melody by R. H. Prichard, 1811-1887) (2008 Digital Remaster)
Performer: Robert Joyce (Organ)
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Traditional English Carols (8): no 6, The Truth from Above
Performer: Robert Tear (Tenor), Hugh Bean (Violin), Sir Philip Ledger (Piano)
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O little town of Bethlehem (v.3 arr. Ledger)
Performer: Francis Grier (Organ), Thomas Armstrong (Countertenor)
Conductor: Sir Philip Ledger
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cambridge King's College Choir
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Traditional Carols from Herefordshire (12): Joseph and Mary
Performer: Hugh Bean (Violin), Sir Philip Ledger (Piano), Robert Tear (Tenor)
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And all in the morning (Traditional)
Conductor: Sir David Willcocks
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cambridge King's College Choir
Notes: Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Alleluya, sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol) (Traditional)
Performer: Oliver Brett (Organ)
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cambridge King's College Choir
Notes: Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Come down, O Love divine (Down Ampney) (v.4 harm. Thomas Williamson)
Performer: Thomas Williamson (Organ)
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cambridge King's College Choir
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Disc 20
Four Hymns for Tenor, Viola and Strings
Lord! Come away (J. Taylor)
Who is this fair one? (I. Watts)
Come Love, come Lord (R. Crashaw)
Evening Hymn (translated R. Bridges)
Performer: David Parkhouse (Piano), Ian Partridge (Tenor), Christopher Wellington (Viola)
Orchestra/Ensemble: Music Group of London
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Merciless Beauty
1.Your eyën two
2.So hath your beauty
3.Since I from love
Performer: Hugh Bean (Violin), Eileen Croxford (Cello), Frances Mason (Violin), Ian Partridge (Tenor)
Orchestra/Ensemble: Music Group of London
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Four Poems by Fredegond Shove
3. The New Ghost
4. The Water Mill
Performer: Ian Partridge (Tenor), Jennifer Partridge (Piano)
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Ten Blake Songs
1. Infant Joy
2. A Poison Tree
3. The Piper
4. London
5. The Lamb
6. The Shepherd
7. Ah, Sunflower!
8. Cruelty has a human heart
9. The Divine Image
10. Eternity
Performer: Janet Craxton (Oboe), Ian Partridge (Tenor)
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On Wenlock Edge
I. On Wenlock Edge
II. From far, from eve and morning
III. Is my team ploughing?
IV. Oh, when I was in love with you
V. Bredon Hill
VI. Clun
Performer: Ian Partridge
Orchestra: Music Group of London
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Disc 21
The House of Life
I. Love-Sight
II. Silent Noon
III. Love's Minstrels
IV. Heart's Haven
V. Death in Love
VI. Love's Last Gift
Performer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Tenor), David Willison (Piano)
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Songs of Travel
I. The Vagabond
II. Let beauty awake
III. The Roadside Fire
IV. Youth and Love
V. In Dreams
VI. The infinite shining heavens
VII. Whither must I wander
VIII. Bright is the ring of words
IX. I have trod the upward and the downward slope
Performer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Tenor), David Willison (Piano)
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Disc 22
Linden Lea - A Dorset song
Performer: Philip Martin (Treble)
Conductor: John Scott
Orchestra/Ensemble: City of London Sinfonia, St. Paul's Cathedral
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Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
A Clear Midnight
Performer: Thomas Hampson (Baritone), Craig Rutenberg (Piano)
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Orpheus with his lute (first setting)
Hands, Eyes and Heart
Performer: David Daniels (Countertenor), Martin Katz (Piano)
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Rest
Orchestra/Ensemble: King's Singers
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Five Mystical Songs
4. The Call (soloist in v.1 Philip Martin)
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Five English Folk Songs
1. The Dark Eyed Sailor
2. The Spring Time of the Year
3. Just as the tide was flowing
4. The Lover's Ghost (Well met, my own true love)
5. Wassail Song
Orchestra/Ensemble: Baccholian Singers of London
Notes: Arranger: Hebert Pierce
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Folksongs from the Eastern Counties:
Bushes and Briars
Performer: Hugh Bean (Violin), Sir Philip Ledger (Piano), Robert Tear (Tenor)
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Loch Lomond*
John Dory
Greensleeves
Ward, the Pirate*
Ca' the Yowes
The Unquiet Grave
The Seeds of Love#
Early in the Spring
The Turtle Dove+
Folksongs of the Four Seasons: An Acre of Land^
Bushes and Briars (men's voices)
Performer: *Ian Partridge (Tenor), #Geoffrey Shaw (Baritone), +Christopher Keyte (Baritone), Susan Longfield (Soprano)^
Conductor: Christopher Bishop
Orchestra/Ensemble: London Madrigal Singers
Notes: Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Disc 23
Folksongs from the Eastern Counties:
The Captain's Apprentice
As I walked out
Geordie
On Board a Ninety-Eight
The Ploughman
The Brewer
Rolling in the Dew
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Traditional Carols from Herefordshire
The Saviour's Love
Réveillez-vous, Picards! (Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Chanson de quête (Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams)
La Ballade du Jésus Christ (Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams)
She's like the swalllow
The Morning Dew
The Maiden's Lament
The Cuckoo
The Lawyer
Searching for Lambs
How cold the wind doth blow (or The Unquiet Grave)
Performer: Hugh Bean (Violin), Sir Philip Ledger (Piano), Robert Tear (Tenor)
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A Song of Thanksgiving
Performer: Harry Gabb (Organ), Robert Speaight (Spoken Vocals), Betty Dolemore (Soprano)
Conductor: Sir Adrian Boult
Orchestra/Ensemble: Luton Girls Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra
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Disc 24
Epithalamion
I. Prologue (chorus)
II. Wake now (baritone and chorus)
III. The Calling of the Bride (chorus)
IV. The Minstrels (chorus)
V. Procession of the Bride (chorus)
VI. The Temple Gates (chorus)
VII. The Bell Ringers (chorus)
VIII. The Lover's Song (baritone and chorus)
IX. The Minstrel's Song (baritone and chorus)
X. Song of the Winged Loves (chorus)
XI. Prayer to Juno (baritone and chorus)
Performer: Stephen Roberts (Baritone), Howard Shelley (Piano), Jonathan Snowden (Flute)
Conductor: Sir David Willcocks
Orchestra/Ensemble: Bach Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra
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Riders to the Sea:
Where is she?
Where is the bit of new rope?
Wait, Nora
You didn't give him his bit of bread?
Bartley will be lost now
They are all gone now
Performer: Norma Burrowes (Soprano), Gloria Jennings (Mezzo Soprano), Margaret Price (Soprano),
Pauline Stevens (Mezzo Soprano), Helen Watts (Mezzo Soprano), Valerie Hill (Soprano)
Conductor: Meredith Davies
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra Nova of London
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Disc 25
Hugh the Drover (or Love in the Stocks): A Romantic Ballad Opera in two acts
ACT I
(Allegro vivacissimo) - Buy, buy, buy (Cheap-Jack)
Cold blows the wind on Cotsail (Showman)
As I was a-walking (Ballad Seller)
Show me a richer man (John)
Here come the Morris men (Chorus)
Life must be full of care (Aunt Jane)
Sweet little linnet that longs to be free (Hugh)
Horse-hoofs, horse-hoofs, thunder down the valleys (Hugh)
In the night-time I have seen you riding (Mary)
Mary! Mary! (Constable)
Oh! the devil and Bonyparty (Showman)
Yes, I! (Hugh)
Are you ready? Go! (Showman)
The drover's won! (Showman)
I tell you there's a price on this man's head (Constable)
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Hugh the Drover (or Love in the Stocks): A Romantic Ballad Opera in two acts
ACT II
(Lento moderato) - Past four o'clock (Ballad Seller)
Gaily! I go to die (Hugh)
Hugh! ... Mary! (Mary/Hugh)
Sweet little home (Mary)
Where's she gone to? (Constable)
Here, queen uncrowned (Mary)
A trollop from the stocks (John)
Dropped from the ranks on a winter's night (Sergeant)
March away, John! (Chorus)
O foolish girl, o radiant soul! (Hugh)
Oh! the sky shall be our roof (Hugh/Mary)
Performer: Sheila Armstrong (Soprano), Oliver Broome (Bass), Sally Burgess (Mezzo Soprano), Steve Davies (Baritone), John Fryatt (Tenor), Leslie Fyson (Baritone), Neil Jenkins (Tenor), Robert Lloyd (Bass), David Johnston (Tenor), Shirley Minty (Mezzo Soprano), Henry Newman (Baritone), Bruce Ogsten (Bass), Michael Rippon (Bass Baritone), Lynda Richardson (Soprano), Terence Sharpe (Baritone), Robert Tear (Tenor), David Read (Bass), Helen Watts (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Sir Charles Groves
Orchestra/Ensemble: Ambrosian Opera Chorus, St. Paul's Cathedral Choristers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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Disc 27
Sir John in Love . Opera in four acts . Libretto by the composer after Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor
Act I
(Allegro vivace) - What-hoa! (Shallow, Evans, Slender, Page)
How now, Master Shallow (Falstaff, Shallow, Slender, Bardolph, Pistol, Page, Nym)
O heavens, this is mistress Anne Page (Slender, Page, Falstaff, Shallow, Evans, Simple, Anne)
Ahem ... I had rather than forty shillings (Anne, Slender)
Weep eyes, break heart (Anne)
Do but look on her eyes (Fenton, Anne)
I see I cannot get thy father's love (Fenton, Anne, Page)
Vere is dat knave Rugby? (Caius, Rugby, Simple, Mrs Quickly)
I will myself marry Anne Page (Caius, Mrs Quickly, Rugby, Fenton)
Master Fenton, I'll be sworn she loves you (Mrs Quickly, Fenton, Bardolph, Nym, Pistol, Host)
Back and side go bare (Bardolph, Nym, Pistol, Host, Falstaff)
I spy entertainment in her (Falstaff, Pistol, Nym, Bardolph, Host)
Wilt thou revenge? (Pistol Nym, Ford)
Love my wife? I will be patient (Ford)
When daises pied and violets blue (Mrs Ford, Mrs Page, Ford)
Act II
Scene 1
(Allegro moderato e maestoso)
Thine own true knight (Mrs Page, Mrs Ford)
Ask me no reason why I love you (Mrs Ford, Mrs Page, Mrs Quickly)
Sigh no more, ladies (Mrs Quickly, Mrs Page, Mrs Ford)
(Maestoso)
Scene 2
Bardolph, Bardolph, I say! (Falstaff, Bardolph)
Give your worship good morrow (Mrs Quickly, Falstaff)
O that joy so soon should waste! (Falstaff)
There's one Master Brook below (Bardolph, Falstaff, Ford)
I have long loved her (Ford, Falstaff)
The dew that lies on roses (Falstaff, Ford)
Vere is mine host of de Garter? (Caius, Host, Slender, Shallow, Page, Ford)
(Maestoso)
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Sir John in Love . Opera in four acts . Libretto by the composer after Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor
Act III
Scene 1: Interlude
(Andante moderato)
Yet hear me speak (Fenton, Host, Chorus, Anne)
Beauty clear and fair (Fenton, Chorus, Anne)
Fair and fair and twice so fair (Chorus, Fenton, Anne, Host)
But listen, good mine host (Anne, Chorus, Host, Fenton)
I mun be married a-Sunday (Host, Chorus, Anne, Fenton)
Scene 2
(Lento) - When we sat down in Papylon (Evans, Simple)
How now, Master Parson?
Peace, I say! (Shallow, Page, Slender, Evans, Host, Caius, Simple, Rugby, Ford)
When I was a bachelor (Host, Omnes except Slender and Ford)
(Allegro)
Scene 3
What, John! What, Robert! (Mrs. Ford, Mrs Page, John & Robert, Mrs Quickly)
Alas my love, you do me wrong (Mrs Ford, Falstaff)
Have I caught my heavenly jewel (Falstaff, Mrs Ford)
Mistress Ford! Mistress Ford! (Mrs Quickly, Falstaff, Mrs Ford, Mrs Page)
When I was a bachelor (Chorus of Men, Mrs Ford, Ford, Robert, Mrs Page)
Nay, follow him gentleman (Page, Mrs Page, Mrs Ford, Ford, Evans, Caius, Slender, Shallow, Host, Pistol, Bardolph, Nym)
Mistress Page! ... Mistress Page! (Ford, Page, Mrs Page, Host, Chorus)
Act IV
Scene 1
(Andante piacevole)
Pardon me, wife (Ford, Mrs Ford, Page, Mrs Page, Evans)
There is an old tale goes (Mrs Page, Page, Mrs Ford, Ford)
Trib, fairies, trib ... Round about in a fair ring-a (Evans, Chorus, Mrs Page, Page, Caius, Slender, Evans, Mrs Ford)
(Lento moderato )
Scene 2
(Vivace)
The Windsor bell hath struck twelve (Falstaff, Mrs Ford, Mrs Page, Chorus of Fairies)
Oo Oo! ... Fairies black, grey, green and white (Chorus of Fairies, Anne, Falstaff, Mrs Quickly)
Dances of the Fairies (Allegro pesante) - But stay, I smell a man of middle earth (Evans, Falstaff, Host, Pistol, Chorus, Bardolph, Nym, Mrs Quickly)
Pinch him, pinch him black and blue (Chorus of Fairies, Falstaff)
(Moderato) - ay, do not fly (Page, Mrs Page, Ford, Mrs Ford, Host, Nym, Bardolph, Pistol, Mrs Quickly, Evans, Falstaff, Shallow, Slender, Simple, Caius) (That shld be 'Nay'...)
See the chariot at hand (Chorus, Fenton, Page, Anne, Falstaff, Ford, Mrs Page, Mrs Ford)
Whether men do laugh or weep (Falstaff, omnes)
Dance (Presto)
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Performer: Rowland Jones (Baritone), Bernard Dickerson (Tenor), Gerald English (Tenor), Raimund Herincx (Baritone), Terry Jenkins (Tenor), David Johnston (Tenor), Robert Lloyd (Bass), John Noble (Baritone), Mark Rowlinson (Baritone), Felicity Palmer (Mezzo Soprano), Richard Van Allan (Bass), Helen Watts (Mezzo Soprano), Colin Wheatley (Baritone), John Winfield (Tenor), Bernard Dickerson (Tenor)
Conductor: Meredith Davies
Orchestra/Ensemble: New Philharmonia Orchestra
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Disc 29
The Pilgrim's Progress - A morality in a prologue, four acts and an epilogue
Prologue: Bunyan in Prison
Act I
Scene 1: The Pilgrim meets Evangelist
Scene 2: The House Beautiful
Nocturne (Intermezzo)
Act II
Scene 1: The Arming of the Pilgrim
Scene 2: The Pilgrim meets Apollyon
Act III
Scene 1: Vanity Fair
Buy! What will ye buy?
I buy the truth
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The Pilgrim's Progress - A morality in a prologue, four acts and an epilogue
Act III
Scene 2: The Pilgrim in Prison
Act IV
Scene 1: The Pilgrim meets Mister By-Ends
Entr'acte
Scene 2: The Delectable Mountains
Who so dwelleth
The Lord is my Shepherd
Scene 3: The Pilgrim reaches the End of his Journey
Epilogue
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The Pilgrim's Progress - Sir Adrian Boult in Rehearsal
Act III Scene 1
Act I Nocturne
Act IV Scene 1
Act IV Scene 2
Act II Scene 1
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Performer: John Shirley-Quirk (Baritone), Sheila Armstrong (Soprano), Norma Burrowes (Soprano), John Carol Case (Baritone), Bernard Dickerson (Tenor), Wendy Eathorne (Soprano), John Elwes (Tenor), Gerald English (Tenor), Wynford Evans (Tenor), Marie Hayward (Soprano), Raimund Herincx (Baritone), Alfreda Hodgson (Mezzo Soprano), Gloria Jennings (Mezzo Soprano), Christopher Keyte (Bass), Robert Lloyd (Bass), John Noble (Baritone), Ian Partridge (Tenor), Doreen Price (Soprano), Terence Sharpe (Baritone), Geoffrey Shaw (Baritone), Jean Temperley (Soprano), Delia Wallis (Mezzo Soprano), Joseph Ward (Tenor), Kenneth Woollam (Tenor), Richard Angas (Bass)
Conductor: Sir Adrian Boult
Orchestra/Ensemble: London Philharmonic Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra
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